You probably think I am an empty turtle shell. I am, but I have a beautiful pattern on my back.

When the Creator made all animals, He said "Go forth and multiply, each after your own kind. My ancestors obeyed."

My father had a special pattern on his back. It blended into the forest. My mother had the same pattern so they knew they fit well together. My father put some small eggs into my mother. She dug a hole in the earth and gently laid the eggs in. Then she covered them. The sun warmed them and the trees shaded them. One day I broke out of the egg and I had a beautiful pattern on my back, just like my first ancestor. The Creator gave me a turned up nose, too.

I lived a long time and had babies with the wonderful pattern. When I went back to the earth, Rona found my empty shell in a box in Santa Fe. She admired my pattern.
She found a pair of bleached deer antlers in a tree on a ranch in Texas. She saved all these things. She found a gourd, some bones, guinea feathers, and bamboo. Rona found some horse hair and a pair of hawk talons in the same box she found my shell many years earlier in Santa Fe. She could see the horse running fast and the hawk flying high, and she thanked the Creator for these blessings.

Rona had a piece of coral that her son, Parker, had given her in Cancun, Mexico, and two larodorite stones she found in Tucson. She cherished all these things and put them together with my shell with the beautiful pattern. She painted the Son of the Creator's hand with the wound from the nail, and put a heart on it, and made that my heart and soul. All these things fit because they came from the Creator.

AND NOW! I AM A WARRIOR! I AM LOVED AGAIN FOR THE SPECIAL PATTERN ON MY SHELL. RONA LOVES THE CREATOR AND SO DO I. IF YOU LOVE THE CREATOR, YOU WILL LOVE ALL HIS CREATIONS. IF YOU ARE A HUMAN LIKE RONA, YOU WILL CHERISH YOURSELF AND ALL OTHERS, FOR YOU ARE MADE IN HIS IMAGE.